Cristina believes in the educational values of cultural heritage and in the power of community engagement, seeing them as the keys to attaining relevant museums.
At NEMO’s European Museum Conference 2024, Cristina Toma will join the session “Can we talk?” on Monday 11 November.
Presentation abstract:
Communities & Romanian museums. A bittersweet challenge
Even though it is not common practise for Romanian museums to address specific communities, more and more museums have projects involving communities. The most active museums are the ethnographic museums, but not only. Perhaps for small museums, such as the Maps Museum, addressing communities is easier than for bigger museums. The Maps Museum works with several communities, of which maybe the most important one is the Ukrainian community in Bucharest. Starting 2022, the number of Ukrainian refugees in Bucharest increased and thus we, as a museum, felt the need to give them a safe space for meeting. Another objective was establishing a connection between them and the museum collection.
